Today’s AI can beat humans at Jeopardy, chess, recognizing faces and diagnosing medical conditions. As of last Fall it can write malware, too. In fact, it can write an entire attack chain: phishing emails, macros, reverse shells, you name it. What do we do now? The post AI Can Write Malware Now. Are We Doomed? appeared first on Check Point Research ..read more

Introduction At the end of November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, the new interface for its Large Language Model (LLM), which instantly created a flurry of interest in AI and its possible uses.  However, ChatGPT has also added some spice to the modern cyber threat landscape as it quickly became apparent that code generation can help less-skilled threat actors effortlessly launch cyberattacks. In Check Point Research’s (CPR) previous blog, we described how ChatGPT successfully conducted a full infection flow, from creating a convincing spear-phishing email to running a reverse shell, capa ..read more

Research by: Sharon Ben-Moshe, Gil Gekker, Golan Cohen Introduction Due to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s release of the new interface for its Large Language Model (LLM), in the last few weeks there has been an explosion of interest in General AI in the media and on social networks. This model is used in many applications all over the web and has been praised for its ability to generate well-written code and aid the development process. However, this new technology also brings risks. For instance, lowering the bar for code generation can help less-skilled threat actors effortlessly launch cyber-attacks. In ..read more